TipTac - An Advanced Tooltip Addon
TipTac is a tooltip enchancement addon, it allows you to configure various aspects of the tooltip, such as moving where it's shown, the font, the scale of tips, colored highlights, backgrounds, frames plus a lot more.
To open the options dialog, just use "/tip" or "/tiptac" without any parameters. Use "/tip anchor" (or click the Anchor button in the options window) to show the anchor frame and position it as you want.
I only fixed the addon for classic (and fixed some bug which I dont know if exists in retail) and added a few extra feature that others requested, but I don't plan to develop it further or to add more features if unless they are really needed.
The original author is Aezay who created the Retail version of this addon (last changed in march 2019)
Current Features
- Shows the buffs and debuffs of the target with cooldown models. Has options to make it only show the ones you cast.
- When in a raid or party, there is an option to show who from the group is targeting the unit.
- Vast anchoring options allows you to change between Normal, Mouse and Parent anchor, this is configurable for both unit and non-unit tips on a frame or non-frames.
- Anchoring frame lets you decide exactly where you want tips with the normal anchoring option.
- Able to change the font face and size for all tips in the User Interface. Uses "LibSharedMedia" if installed.
- Can show a Health, Mana, Energy, Rage or Focus bar inside the tip, which can be enabled or disabled as you prefer.
- Tips are getting updated at a customizable interval to display changes.
- Configurable fading options, both a prefade and fadeout time can be set. They can also be set to zero if you prefer the tips to just hide instantly.
- Allows for you to change the background and border color of the TipTacTip and any of the modified tip.
Special Tip Modification
TipTac does not only configure the tip for units, you can also use TipTac to modify other tips in the WoW Interface. The way they are getting modified are both in scale and appearance. The border and background of the modified tips can be changed to colors of your desire.
Features I changed or added
- - Obviously I removed all retail-related things, or features which try to acquire information that blocked in Classic WoW.
- - Added RealMobHealth support, but Blizzard recently blocked/changed it, I'll see how it goes
- - Added option to put Guildname below or above the level/race/class line (by request)
- - Added more option for displaying PvP rank (Options / General / NameType) to display rank only with number, or to set RankName to gray, to display with number as well and also to make the servername gray, so the playername stands out more (by request)
hey im using chinese clients here, still extra same line with race level and class,how to fix that?
Im getting this error. Any ideas? Causes the tooltips to display very odd and keeps spamming.
422x TipTac\ttBars.lua:155: <unnamed>:SetFormattedText(): Font not set
[string "=[C]"]: in function `SetFormattedText'
[string "@TipTac\ttBars.lua"]:155: in function `SetFormattedBarValues'
[string "@TipTac\ttBars.lua"]:260: in function `?'
[string "@TipTac\ttCore.lua"]:304: in function `SendElementEvent'
[string "@TipTac\ttCore.lua"]:642: in function `ApplyUnitAppearance'
[string "@TipTac\ttCore.lua"]:784: in function <TipTac\ttCore.lua:746>
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "=[C]"]: ?
Locals:
(*temporary) = <unnamed> {
0 = <userdata>
}
(*temporary) = "%s / %s"
(*temporary) = "3052"
(*temporary) = "3052"
FrameXML\GameTooltip.lua:110: Action[SetPoint] failed because[SetPoint would result in anchor family connection]: attempted from: GameTooltip:SetPoint. [string "=[C]"]: in function `SetPoint' [string "@FrameXML\GameTooltip.lua"]:110: in function <FrameXML\GameTooltip.lua:108> [string "=[C]"]: in function `GameTooltip_SetDefaultAnchor' [string "*:OnTooltipSetDefaultAnchor"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnTooltipSetDefaultAnchor"]:1> Locals: (*temporary) = GameTooltip { 0 = <userdata> default = 1 BottomLeftCorner = <unnamed> { } OnBackdropLoaded = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:239 backdropColor = <table> { } backdropBorderColor = <table> { } GetBackdropColor = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:477 SetHyperlink = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetTradeSkillItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 hasMoney = 1 SetBackdropBorderColor = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:509 RightEdge = <unnamed> { } TopLeftCorner = <unnamed> { } comparing = false Center = <unnamed> { } SetUnitBuff = <function> defined =[C]:-1 BottomOverlay = <unnamed> { } backdropInfo = <table> { } BottomEdge = <unnamed> { } SetBackdrop = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:416 ClearBackdrop = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:369 TopOverlay = <unnamed> { } GetBackdropBorderColor = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:496 GetBackdrop = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:434 SetUnitDebuff = <function> defined =[C]:-1 ApplyBackdrop = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:381 SetLootItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetQuestItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 ttIcon = <unnamed> { } SetBorderBlendMode = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:353 FadeOut = <function> defined @TipTac\ttCore.lua:866 numMoneyFrames = 1 TMW_SetSpellByIDWithClassIcon = <function> defined @TellMeWhen\Components\Core\Spells\ClassSpellCache.lua:191 SetQuestLogItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetInboxItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetBuybackItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 shoppingTooltips = <table> { } SetTradeTargetItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetMerchantItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetupTextureCoordinates = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:301 OnBackdropSizeChanged = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:269 HasBackdropInfo = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:365 TopRightCorner = <unnamed> { } SetTradePlayerItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetIconTextureAndText = <function> defined @TipTacItemRef\ttItemRef.lua:62 SetSendMailItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 GetEdgeSize = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:275 updateTooltip = 0.090000 SetInventoryItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 TopEdge = <unnamed> { } ttCount = <unnamed> { } SetLootRollItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetUnitAura = <function> defined =[C]:-1 BottomRightCorner = <unnamed> { } SetAuctionSellItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetBagItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 needsReset = true SetupPieceVisuals = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:333 SetBackdropColor = <function> defined @SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:486 LeftEdge = <unnamed> { } SetAuctionItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 } (*temporary) = "BOTTOMRIGHT" (*temporary) = "UIParent" (*temporary) = "BOTTOMRIGHT" (*temporary) = -13 (*temporary) = 105I have gotten this error... over 168,000 times according to BugSac
Found one bug, tamed abilities cannot be displayed
In reply to toughstrong:
workaround is to uncheck "Hide PVP text" in Special settings.
since the latest version shows the name of the guild on two lines. I don't know if it's a bug or not, but I can't fix it
Hello i dont know if this is something on tiptac side but when you have Both Mobinfo2 and Tiptac enabled, the mobs dont show their current quest status (EX: 10/25 Bloody Bone Necklace), as soon as i disable tiptac mobinfo starts displaying the status, but if both are enabled MobInfo only shows the quest name. :C
The tooltips for quests linked in chat does not seem to work.
I'll check the official retail version, a version that someone shared with me, and my own version, and merge my modifications into those to see how'll it work. I'll post an update soon, or if the official version seems fine, I'll just delete my version from curse to let the addon managers to pick up the original version...
Getting bombed with LUA errors with this addon as of lately.
Just wanted to tell you, that the lastest official version of TipTac is working fine for me in classic-tbc.
I will quote myself (https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/tip-tac):
Just realized that it is working for TBC Classic (for me). I had some problems with backdrop insets first, but after re-set the values for it, everything seems like to be OK. Oh and make sure to disable the TipTac_Talents plugin.
Just one thing that really drives me nuts is that the custom-borders are not apply when you mouseover items from your bag or in character stats screen. This bug is also present in retail.
I really wish a fix for that...would even pay for it lol ..
For me its working better than this version here.
Aur0r4
Ok sometimes you will be spammed with this error when using retail version :/
2054x TipTac\ttStyle.lua:55: attempt to call upvalue 'UnitQuestTrivialLevelRange' (a nil value) [string "@TipTac\ttStyle.lua"]:55: in function <TipTac\ttStyle.lua:47> [string "@TipTac\ttStyle.lua"]:221: in function `ModifyUnitTooltip' [string "@TipTac\ttStyle.lua"]:296: in function `?' [string "@TipTac\ttCore.lua"]:298: in function `SendElementEvent' [string "@TipTac\ttCore.lua"]:657: in function `ApplyUnitAppearance' [string "@TipTac\ttCore.lua"]:819: in function <TipTac\ttCore.lua:780> [string "=[C]"]: ? [string "=[C]"]: ?
In reply to Aur0r491:
Seems like I've fixed it:
open ttStyle.lua
replace
line #4
local UnitQuestTrivialLevelRange = UnitQuestTrivialLevelRange;
with
local GetQuestGreenRange = GetQuestGreenRange;
and
line #55
elseif (level >= -UnitQuestTrivialLevelRange("player")) then
with
elseif (level >= -GetQuestGreenRange("player")) then
im not sure what happened, but suddenly tiptac is showing guild / guild rank even with the setting for that disabled. https://imgur.com/a/yp0DMTZ
In reply to Jackfwaust:
Getting the same here.
Not sure if I am blind and can't see the option but my text colors are wrong. Everything is white colored except the title which is colored according to rarity for items. It makes all the tooltips hard to read since I can't clearly see text separation. Is this an option or some sort of error?
https://imgur.com/a/KjCuuiF
somehow hunter beast lore does not show the abilities of the tameable beast with tiptac enabled, or is there an option for that?
There's no way to make the tiptac window completely solid (its always transparent right now). Seems to be a post pre-patch issue.
1. There are no PvP titles anymore, they are just selectable (optional) prefixes (Titles) similar to Scarab lord etc...
It shows the highest achieved PvP rank from classic if someone choose to display it but is not the indication of their current PvP status, and nothing returned when requesting PvP rank number. I can make it to check the prefix, search if there is any classic pvp rank that matches it and then treat it as a PvP title or to display it as a number, but for now, I'll just keep all title hidden, maybe later I'll make an optional checkbox to show the Player titles in gray after the names, so its always their name first. What should I do? :)
2. Also... I'm not the original author, I had no plan to add features (but I can), and if someone can help out finding a fix/solution for the border/background then I can add as a contributor. I found a fix for the same thing for retail, but after (while keeping my changes elsewhere) aplying them to my version, it was still buggy, the background and border kinda worked but very randomly, sometimes its the curremt, sometimes bright tooltip, sometimes the default flashes and then a milisecond later overlapped with the good background... very inconsistent. I have no clue how to fix it...
In reply to DaMaGepy:
Would love to see titles somewhere, even if it's to the side! :) Ideally would love to see it just in front of the name, Commander ___ or Warlord ___, but either way works. Thank you so much for updating the addon, it's one of my favs.